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Oh, So You Must Be Bob

Family Matters

Are You Trying To Tell Me I'm Fat?

Antique/Collectible Addictions

On a More Serious Note

It's a Zoo Out There

Saralee's Just Plain Quirky

Just a Nice Story

Love Stories

 


Oh, So You Must Be Bob. You're Such a Good Sport!


  1. Surgery, Stunts & Chutzpah
  2. I Hate Bob's Gadgets
  3. An Uncommon Cold Batters Poor Bob
  4. A Million Nails and a Decision-Impaired Man
  5. If I Could Buy Time in a Bottle
  6. Laughter, Love and Surgery
  7. A Chevy to Remember
  8. Bob and the other Woman, So To Speak
  9. I'd Hate to Be a Man
  10. Bob is on a Diet
  11. Bob Makes Quite a Splash at his Reunion
  12. Does a Man Need to Grow Things?
  13. Who Wouldn't Want to be a Millionaire?
  14. Home Depot: Home Away from Home
  15. So What's the Worst that could Happen?
  16. Bob's Garden: An Exercise in Fruitility
  17. Zen and the Art of Bread Baking for the Barnstable County Fair
  18. My Favorite Year at the Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off
  19. This Year I Learned the Meaning of Fair Play
Family Matters
  1. No Reason To Say Goodbye
  2. My Great Valentine Lapazoo Party
  3. My Diary: A Tribute to Moms
  4. I Married for Love, Sort of
  5. ... Then the Duck Told the Dentist, "Put the Charges on my Bill."
  6. Family Cook-Out Becomes a Labor of Love
  7. A Marriage of Differences Enriches the Holidays
  8. Our Family Trees are Full of Nuts
  9. "How To Avoid Holiday Stress" & other Hogwash
  10. The Season of Family Fruitcakes
  11. Like Mother, Like Daughter? Thank you!
  12. Labor Day Loves and a Few Big Lies
 Antique/Collectible Addictions
  1. One Day at a Time
  2. eBay: I Can Quit Anytime I Want
  3. Brimfield: The Irresistible Asylum
  4. A Love Story About a Ring
  5. Chaos and Combat in a Collector's Attic
  6. Confessions of a Flea-Market Fraud
  7. An Evening of Darkness and Light
  8. The Past. The Present. The Prozac?
  9. There's No Present Like the Time

Are You Trying To Tell Me I'm Fat?!
  1. Note to Bob: Don't Tell Me I've Gained Weight
  2. Carbs, Cows and Calories
  3. Get the Stinky Broccoli Out of my Face
  4. New Year, New You, New Hogwash

On A More Serious Note
  1. My Futile Iroquois Research
  2. When Bad Turns Out to be Good
  3. Seeking the Meaning of Life
  4. Living Memoirs of my Father
  5. New Year, New Path, New Love
  6. Winter at Summer Camp
  7. A Love Letter to my Mom for Mother's Day
  8. What the Heck Was I Waiting For?
  9. Let Us Never Waste Our Words
  10. The Joy of Walking and Other Dreams
  11. Life Lessons from the Jewelry Box
  12. Finally, the Spirit Moves Me
  13. Keep On Keepin' On, Merri
  14. Let’s Make it Truly a Day of Independence
  15. If Only Children Didn’t Grow Up
  16. A Surprise at the End of Summer
  17. Ellen’s Bell
  18. Lessons My Mother Taught me after her Death
  19. Facing Fear: My Triumph in a Taxi
  20. Living Life Through a Long Wait
  21. Someone To Watch Over Me
  22. Learning From Eddie
It's A Zoo Out There
  1. Hallelujah! It's a Girl!
  2. The Best Birthday Gift of my Life
  3. A Hunk of Burnin' Love
  4. Leader of the Pack
  5. Pet peeves at the Quack of Dawn
  6. I Want to be Treated Like a Dog
  7. Run For Your Life Or My Cat Will Kill You!
  8. Love Springs Eternal from a Box of Quackers
  9. A Maine Tale: Of Moose and Men
  10. Want People to Know What You Really Think?
  11. My Biological Clock is Quacking
  12. Drama in my Backyard Maternity Ward
  13. If it Quacks Like a Duck, it Might be Bob
  14. Vital Life Lessons from the Coop
  15. Psychotherapy from the Desk of my New Cat
  16. The Wackiest Dog Day of this Summer
  17. Bernadette the Fish Finds a New Home
  18. Coyotes and Mosquitoes and Ticks. Oh My!
  19. Compassion and Gratitude Unite All Species
  20. I'll Never Say, "It's the Dog or Me!"
  21. The Creature that Lurks in Cape Cod Bay
  22. The Most Beautiful Picture of Me
  23. A Nurturing Man Who's Gone Nuts
  24. Gender Mishmash in my House
  25. A Dog, A Dad and Noodlehead
  26. Discovering Wisdom in a Wagging Tail
  27. Someone To Watch Over Me
Saralee's Just Plain Quirky
  1. Careful What You Wish For
  2. It was NOT my Fault!
  3. As Our Shrinks Grow Older
  4. It's Bob All Day, But it's Nick at Night
  5. I Didn't Say "What's Up Doc?"
  6. Relax at the Dentist. It's Only a Drill!
  7. Heroes and Accidental Champions
  8. My Inner Child's a Big Dork
  9. My True-Life Identity Crisis
  10. With LUV to Bob, Kate and the Surgeon
  11. The Clamorous Cape Cod Clammer
  12. This Month's Phobia: Being Buried Alive
  13. Meat on Shoes and Little Town Blues
  14. Eating Clams and Crow in Wellfleet
  15. Can't Private Parts Be Kept More Private?
  16. Best Cases of Laughter are Highly Contagious
  17. And on Top of That, We Hated the Movie
  18. It's What You Don't Say that Counts
  19. Fighting Fair, From the Queen of Unfair Play
  20. The Road to Recovery is a Two-Way Street
  21. Stepping Out Thanks to Bob and Papa Gino's
  22. The Festering Wonders of Winter
  23. Wake-Up Calls from a Fanatic Spaceman
  24. Worth the Wait? In Gold!
  25. It was not MY Fault!
  26. Done In By the Wrath of Grapes
  27. Just Don't Ask What's in the Sausage
  28. Low Pressure Causes Rise in Lunacy
  29. Party, Pluck and Pins to Prop Me Up
  30. "How To Stop Worrying" And Other Baloney
  31. Odd Couples, Face-Lickers and Lunatics
  32. Let No Good Deed Go Unpunished
  33. You've Come a Long Way, Maybe
  34. To Kiss and Tell is One Thing
  35. Got the Flu? Try Chocolate and an Army Blanket

Just A Nice Story

  1. To Anyone Who is Listening
  2. Why I Married Bob
  3. I've Got So Much To Do
  4. Perpetual Holiday Happiness
  5. Surprises are the Spices of Life
  6. Twenty-Five Years on Cape Cod Bay: A Love Story
  7. This "Do Unto Others" Bit is Not a Bad Idea
  8. Quiet Angels On Cape Cod
  9. Where Happiness Is A Cure
Love Stories

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